ALMOST HOME, a feature-length, cinema verité film, rescues the real stories of aging from an exile of denial. A stunningly intimate documentary shot on location in a nursing home, ALMOST HOME tells the unflinching, honest stories of couples both bonded and divided by disability and dementia, children torn between caring for their parents and caring for their children, healthy elders fearful of moving to the dreaded nursing home, and a visionary nursing home director committed to transforming his century-old hospital-like institution into a true home. The program airs on Rhode Island PBS on February 2 at 9 p.m. (channel 36 / RI cable channel 8 / Dish Network 7776 / DirecTV 36).

Immediately following at 10:30 p.m., Rhode Island PBS presents CULTURE CHANGE IN RHODE ISLAND, a special 30-minute program that explores the themes of the national documentary from the Rhode Island perspective. Introduced by Chairman of the Rhode Island Long Term Care Coordinating Council, Lieutenant Governor Charles Fogarty, the program will feature a discussion of culture change in nursing homes, expanding options in at-home and community care, and the role of policymakers, business and the community. Senior Digest radio co-host Dave Kane will host the program, and welcome Rhode Island Department of Elderly Affairs Director Corrine Calise Russo, Quality Partners of Rhode Island Project Coordinator Marguerite McLaughlin, and Alzheimer's Association RI Chapter Executive Director Elizabeth Morancy. The program will also connect viewers to local resources for help in caring for an aging spouse or parents, and for information for employees and employers.

ALMOST HOME is a co-production of 371 Productions and Wisconsin Public Television, produced in association with ITVS, with funding provided by the Helen Bader Foundation; The Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation; The Retirement Research Foundation; the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; The Faye McBeath Foundation; and support from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts and Center on Age & Community. Local funding for CULTURE CHANGE IN RHODE ISLAND is provided in part by the Rhode Island Department of Elderly Affairs through the National Family Caregivers Program, and by the Rhode Island Long Term Care Coordinating Council; and is presented in partnership with the Alzheimer's Association Rhode Island Chapter, Care New England, and Quality Partners of Rhode Island.